Espionage in the Himalayas: No Ordinary Adventure
3/5/202654 min
Pete Takeda’s is a unique story - combining extreme locations, extraordinary natural phenomena… and espionage. In September 2005, Pete is leading a small party deep into the Himalayas. His plan is not just to summit the peak of Nanda Kot, but to find proof of plutonium-powered surveillance devices - rumoured to have been planted in the mountains by the CIA some 40 years earlier. But when the might of the mountain turns against Pete and his team, all their priorities shift. Buried alive beneath hundreds of tonnes of snow, cut off from any sort of help, they’ll face a series...
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[wind blowing] It's the early hours of September the 24th, 2005. On the slopes of Nanda Kot, a peak of some 22,500 feet in the Himalayas of Northern India, a savage snowstorm has taken over the world. The clear night sky and blazing stars are gone, the constellations swallowed up by the maelstrom. Even the light from the waning half moon has vanished, engulfed in a vortex of thick, white flakes and ice pellets. The wind howls with a wild, primal anger, as if it were the voice of the mountain itself. Every so often, an avalanche cascades down the rocky, ice-encrusted inclines, sending thick clouds of snow billowing into the opaque sky. [avalanche] With each new avalanche, Nanda Kot purges itself of any sign of human activity,